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Prof. Jack Lohman

Chief Executive Officer

Lohman

Prof. Jack Lohman

Education University of East Anglia, History of Art (Honours 1979)
University of Manchester, MA
Honourary Doctorates: University of Westminster (2008), University of London (2009), University of East Anglia (2013)

Background Of Polish origin, Jack Lohman is Chief Executive of the Royal British Columbia Museum and professor in museum design at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway. He was previously Director of the Museum of London, Chairman of the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland and Chief Executive of Iziko Museums of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a former Chairman of ICOM (International Council of Museums) UK and a former board member of UNESCO UK Culture Committee. He was educated at the University of East Anglia where he studied History of Art and at the Freien Universitat in Berlin where he studied Architecture. He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Westminster, London (PUNO) and East Anglia. He is Editor in Chief of UNESCO’s publication series Museums and Diversity. He received the Bene Merito Medal from the Republic of Poland in 2011 and a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2012 for his work with museums around the world. He sits on the Boards of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the National Museums of Rwanda, the National Museum in Warsaw and the Second World War Museum in Gdansk.

My Posts

Early in 2009 I was appointed adviser to four new history museums in Doha, Qatar, a relationship that continues today. This lecture, given in 2010, marked the opening of a round table for the museum profession in Doha, at which I was keen to flag up certain thoughts on museums that might help guide development. [...]

I love archives. They are the closeted glories of the museum world, and we do not do enough with them. There have always been too many gilded teacups and worthy portraits to put on show. But if we stop looking and start seeing, what riches lie hidden there? In November 1884, a man with the [...]

In 1886, The Museum was established to preserve BC’s natural history and to keep “Indian Antiquities” (as they were called) from leaving the province. In 2017, more than 125 years on, the Royal BC Museum will draw on private and public collections worldwide to hold a major exhibition that reunites BC’s cultural heritage for British Columbians. This unique display of First Nations material will mark [...]